Events[]
January[]
- 29 - Richard Eliot Blackwelder, Tolkien collector, is born.
June[]
- 10 - Around this date J.R.R. Tolkien composes the Book of the Foxrook.
August[]
- 20 - Cecil André Mesritz, who would play Elrond in The Lord of the Rings (1978 film), is born.
Autumn[]
- Father Morgan discovers the romance between J.R.R. Tolkien and Edith Bratt, which he fears may lead to early marriage and ruin Tolkien's career prospects.
- Tolkien fails to win an Oxford scholarship.
?[]
- ? - Elaine Griffiths, friend and pupil of J.R.R. Tolkien, is born.